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ArticleNature2019

Diverse and robust molecular algorithms using reprogrammable DNA self-assembly.

Damien Woods, David Doty, Cameron Myhrvold, Joy Hui, Felix Zhou, Peng Yin, Erik Winfree

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Article in Nature, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 85 papers.

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85citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

85 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Damien WoodsCalifornia Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. damien.woods@mu.ie.
David DotyCalifornia Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. doty@ucdavis.edu.
Cameron MyhrvoldWyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
Joy HuiCalifornia Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Felix ZhouCalifornia Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Peng YinWyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
Erik WinfreeCalifornia Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. winfree@caltech.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molecular biology provides an inspiring proof-of-principle that chemical systems can store and process information to direct molecular activities such as the fabrication of complex structures from molecular components. To develop information-based chemistry as a technology for programming matter to function in ways not seen in biological systems, it is necessary to understand how molecular interactions can encode and execute algorithms. The self-assembly of relatively simple units into complex products

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